Dr. Amr I.M. Hawal has his expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. His open and contextual evaluation model based on responsive constructivists creates new pathways for improving health care specially in Neonatology field. He has built this model after years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and administration both in hospital and education institutions. Our case presentation was done in one of the biggest & modern of art & advanced NICU based on tertiary generation level in the region (Latifa Hospital, DHA, Dubai, UAE).

Improving the health and wellbeing, improving health care specially in Neonatology field.

Mohamed Abou seif Badawi is Pediatric & Neonatal Consultant working in the Pediatric Department of The New Al Qassimi Women and Children Hospital . He received his MBBCH from Ain Shams University Medical College in 1990 , one of the top ranked & best universities in Egypt . He trained at the Pediatric Department of Ain Shams University hospital ,Cairo, Egypt ,had Master Degree in pediatric from the same university in 1995 . He is member of Royal College of Pediatric and Child Health since 2009.He had Arab Board for medical specialization in pediatric in 2012. Dr. Badawi is faculty at Dubai Medical College for Girl, Hospital based Instructor for NRP. He is A member of many societies ( BAPM ,RCPCH, EAP, ESPINIC, ESICM and more ) . He had been in the field of neonatology over last 28 years . He is interested in neonatal Ventilation ,neurology and Nutrition . He did many quality improvement projects in Neonatology including reduction of the incidence of ROP in premature, Reduction of neonatal hypothermia on admission to NICU ,reduction of the PICC associated complications in NICU . Beside his clinical interest in neonatology and management of extreme preterm, He is interested in clinical research and publication

Neonatology

Experienced Neonatologist , Pediatric Nephrologist and Deputy manager in hospital with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care management . Skilled in Training Coordination, Mechanical Ventilation, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Emergency Medicine, and Pediatric Intensive Care. Strong healthcare services professional focused in Medicine from Faculty of medicine, Minya University.

Research in Neonatal HealthCare

Accomplished clinician, with a broad and extensive knowledge base, excellent interpersonal skills and proven leadership, and clinical acumen of high caliber, with a history of working in the most intense and prestigious Neonatal ICU's in the country. Perhaps, most importantly, I have a history of a rich and varied clinical experiences, allowing me the opportunity to work in both private and academic settings. I have a good understanding of hospital cultures and can walk into any Neonatal ICU with confidence and the ability to assimilate quickly.

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Clinical Nurse Educator

Katie Reginato Cascamo is the mother of a premature son, born 2 ½ months early at 2 ½ pounds. Her neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experience and subsequent challenges with pediatric developmental delays changed her worldview and inspired her to help others during similar difficulties. She is the founder of Courageous Steps, an organization that provides leadership tools to health organizations that manage the care of babies born premature and children with pediatric disabilities. By focusing on employee training and analyzing the business management of these organizations, she strives to increase provider wellness, as well as decrease neonatal and pediatric provider burnout. Its overall mission is to serve organizations that advance preemie and special-needs populations by providing them with a roadmap on how to improve. An accomplished entrepreneur, Katie has modeled a Servant Leadership approach across her career by empowering people with the skills necessary to manage adversity. After starting her own business in the insurance industry, she shifted her focus to help others develop their own potential. She grew Goodwill Industries' welfare-to-work program, a workforce development program for families in need of temporary assistance, from a 45% employment rate to a 100% rate in one year. Katie believes in investing and guiding people, serving as both a motivational speaker and volunteer with organizations that support NICU families. As a Camaldolese Benedictine Oblate, she also contributes to interfaith discussions and provides resources to chaplains, social workers, and pastors. Katie holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Servant-Leadership. She plans to pursue her Doctorate in Leadership so that she may better advance preemie and special-needs organizations.

Founder of Courageous Steps

Dr. Verklan's main research emphasis is on the development of the fetal and neonatal cardiopulmonary and autonomic nervous systems as evaluated by linear and non-linear methods of analysis. She works with the University of Houston Superconductivity Center and uses magnetocardiography to obtain heart rate signals from the fetus and EKGs to obtain physiologic variability from the neonate. Terese has taught in all programs (baccalaureate, masters and doctoral (both PhD and DNP) prior to coming to UTMB. Currently she is teaching in the PhD program, GNRS 6350 Clinical Nurse Investigations in Nursing Grant Proposal. Dr. Verklan still works at the bedside in a Level IIIC Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She is an internationally recognized expert in the care of neonates and consults both nationally and internationally as a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist on matters related to the care of the newborn. Dr. Verklan is a member of several editorial boards and is the Associate Editor for Nursing and Health Sciences and a Contributing Editor for the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing. She also reviews for nursing and medical journals.

Neonatal, Maternal fetal-Medicine

Dr Frederik Loersch MD has his expertise in intra- and interhospital transport of pre- and newborn baby's. He is senior consultant and has been for the last 12 years coordinator of the Study Group of transport neonatology at the University Hospital Mannheim. Though a large ECMO (Extra Corporal membran Oxygenation) Programm and a delivery room who ist dezentral to the NICU there are a lot of experience with transport of Newborn baby's. He has developed a hybrid bed solution after years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and administration for a save transports. With the hybrid there was moren than 1000 intrahospital transports in the last years. He is also an external consultant for KITS (children intensiv transport system) for the European air ambulance. He has developped a intrahospital unit for newbors for transports under ECMO, NO and high frequenz ventilation. Dr Loerschs primary research interests include pediatric and neonatal transports, ECMO, RSV related diseases and neonatal nutrition. He was the leading investigator of the first ECMO transports in Europe.

paediatrics

Dr Wei Siang Yu is a globally renowned pioneer in healthcare TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunication). He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Borderless Healthcare Group of companies which operates borderless healthcare initiatives around the world. Dr Wei graduated as one of the top students at Monash Medical School in 1995 and went against the conventional career path of an honours student to become a medical inventor in the space of digital bio-communication. Dr Wei gained worldwide recognition in his work on social application of digital bio-communication and became the youngest nominee of CNN People’s Choice Award in 2003. Dr Wei's work is also frequently featured by international media all around the world including Discovery Channel, CNN, BBC, Fox News, CNBC, ABC, Time, Wired, ZDF German TV, ARTE French TV, Japan TV, Yomiuri Shimbun, Korean SBS TV, Figaro, Asian Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Guardian UK, LA Times, Channel News Asia, Age, Sunday Times UK, Newsweek, Tatler, Bazaar, Marie Claire New York, Glamour Paris etc. As a global key opinion leader in healthcare TMT, disruptive healthcare solutions and healthcare business hybridisation process in Asia, Dr Wei is a regular speaker in major international conferences including the World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress, Slush, IATI BIOMED, BIOKOREA and mHealth Israel. He is also frequently invited by renowned institutions and organizations such as Stanford University, Oxford University, Singapore Management University, Renmin University, La Trobe University, the World Health Organization and United Nations to share his valuable insights on healthcare evolution and his vision on "consumerising" healthcare. Today, Dr Wei chairs the Borderless Healthcare Group of companies with the key role of converging global healthcare practices with technology, media and telecommunication applications via strategic partnerships, disruptive business models, and mergers & acquisitions.

Healthcare

Luana Pesco Koplowitz, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, received her MD from Rutgers Medical School and her PhD from Rutgers College of Pharmacy and Columbia Pacific University. She completed her training in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. She is adjunct Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical Center of Delaware and is also adjunct faculty at the University of Miami Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology. She is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Dr. Pesco Koplowitz is President & Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of DUCK FLATS Pharma, LLC, a biopharmaceutical consulting and contract company. Previously, she was Chief Medical & Scientific Officer of Research Assist, Inc. She also held the position of Global Group Director of Clinical Pharmacology and US Nonclinical Development for the Janssen Research Foundation of Johnson & Johnson. She has worked at Knoll Pharmaceuticals, Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Company, the Squibb Institute for Medical Research (now Bristol-Myers Squibb) and Key Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Pesco Koplowitz is a member of numerous medical and clinical pharmacology organizations and committees, most recently being asked to serve on the FDA/PhRMA QT Working Group Committee. Dr. Pesco Koplowitz has been responsible for numerous successful INDs and NDAs during her 22-year career and holds several use patents in the treatment of various diseases. She has worked in multiple therapeutic areas, and has personal interests in the areas of overall drug development, PK/PD modeling and drug-drug interactions, receptor-binding modeling and special population clinical trials, especially pediatric, elderly and critical-care patients. She is author or co-author on over 30 publications

Neonatal, Pediatrics

I’ve practiced midwifery for 38 years. I was medically trained in the 1970’s. My midwifery training was not what I expected it to be. Mothers and babies were separated. Birth was not calm or peaceful. It was not the stories from my grandmother who was a baby catcher in the villages of Poland and who birthed 13 children at home. Nor was it anything like the home birth stories of my mothers or my sisters. I’ve spent my entire life observing systems and learning more wonderful ways to deliver care and be connected with women. “Why can’t we lower interventions, why can’t we see less post-partum depression, why can’t we be more human?” I’ve spent my entire life observing practices, developing new ways, implementing change and learning more wonderful ways to stay connected with women. “I have lowered intervention rates. I have hardly seen a woman depressed after birth under my care and I am definitely human”. Most of my knowledge and expertise came from observing and being with the women and families that I’ve cared for. I’ve taken more than 1000 women through the continuity of care program. My homeopathic mind was my greatest asset. Women were educated and learned to connect with their body and their baby. They learned to understand and trust the entire process. They used traditional and complimentary therapies. They birthed well and celebrated birth in quiet calm environments. “Babies, mothers fathers and family were confident healthy and happy.” Unfortunately that is not the case for millions of women across the globe….Where we have system centred care and medically driven care that causes long term psychological harm to the mother and her baby… We have a fear of what’s natural. We have lost touch with nature…. That’s why we are all here today…. …Finding wonderful peaceful and loving ways towards….Birthing Humanity…..

Midwifery

Dulanie Gunasekera MBBS MD FRCP(Lon) FSLCP, is a consultant paediatrician and professor of Paediatrics. She is the current Chair and Academic Head of t department of Paediatrics, University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka. Her interests are in neonatology, breast feeding promotion, immunization and dengue infection and has authored over 40 publications in peer reviewed national and international journals. She is also a Master Trainer for the POQI method of quality improvement. Professor Gunasekera has been Past President of the Sri Lanka College of Pediatricians and the Perinatal Society of Sri Lanka, during which time she was instrumental in promoting basic newborn care in the peripheral regions of Sri Lanka.

neonatology, breast feeding promotion, immunization and dengue infection

Midwifery profession, Founder of China Midwifery Alliance, Founder of China Midwifery website, President of Qingdao Huikang Nursing Training School, Cochairman of China Maternal and Child Health Care Action Coalition, Director of China Medical Council for Promotion Modern Maternity Science and Technology Development. Awarded the “Top Ten Midwifery Angle ” in China from 2014 to 2015, Mengxue enjoys a higher reputation in midwifery circles in China, highly respected by the midwifery colleagues. She developed her own distinctive midwifery management system, team training method, maternity service modes, and held more than 300 lectures across China with high recognition. Mengxue , with more than 30 years of clinical working experience , leads the revolution and regeneration of modern maternity service in China. Starting from 2006，she undertook an journey of learning and investigation about midwifery education, midwifery technique and maternity service across New Zealand , America, Canada, German, Netherlands, Japan, UAE etc. Extremely obsessed with midwifery profession, she has accumulated extensive experience and resources, and studied midwifery technology and obstetric service model with a unique perspective.

Midwifery

Dr. Hu graduated from Zhejiang University School of Medicine in 1984. He was an internist in China and a researcher in Canada. In 2001, after his residency training in USA, he became an anesthesiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the founder and executive director of No Pain Labor & Delivery - Global Health Initiative and the editor-in-chief of its journal. He has published three books as the author or associate-author and five books as a chief translator or associate-chief translator. He has published 23 papers in reputable journals and serves as an editorial board member of three.

Neonatology, Pediatrics

Ann Quinlan-Colwell has completed her PhD at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She works as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and Chair of the Nurse Research Committee at New Hanover Regional Medical Center which is a regional trauma center in Wilmington, NC, USA. She has published in and reviews for reputed peer review journals, has published book chapters and a book on pain management. She is current president of the Nu Omega chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International; president-elect of the Southern Pain Society and serves on the board of the American Society for Pain Management Nurses.

Neonatology, Pediatrics

Anne-Catherine ROLLAND is the chair of child psychiatrist at the University of Reims and the head of the child psychiatry ward at the University Hospital of Reims since 2012. After her medical studies in Reims Medical School, with a specialization in psychiatry and child psychiatry, she has completed her PhD from Paris VII Descartes University in 2010. She did a research year at Melbourne University next to Jeannette Migrom and Anne Buist in 2007-2008. She is specialized in mother infant interactions, and works preferentially on all the mothers’ feelings around the pregnancy and the maternity.

maternity, Infancy

Dr. Olaya-C is pediatric pathologist and PhD from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She is the director of Pathology Department and associated professor at the same University and its Hospital Universitario San Ignacio. She has published more than 25 papers and has worked for fetuses’ health for 20 yerars.

Neonatology, Pathology

Terence Lao graduated MBBS from the University of Hong Kong, and obstained his MD in 2002. He received training in Obstetric Medicine at the Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, London, UK in 1983-4, and completed the fellowship programme in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1989-93. He is professor at the Department of Obstetrcs & Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published 300+ papers in international journals and is a reviewer for 24 journals, and serves on the editorial board of three international journals. His major interest is in maternal medicine and high risk pregnancy.

Obstetrcs & Gynaecology